Big Ideas, Real Impact.
This collection brings together free workshops, mini learning experiences, conversations, and reflections created by educators, for educators. Whether you’re exploring a new idea or returning to something familiar, these resources are here to support thoughtful practice, spark curiosity, and remind you that learning is a collective journey—where wonder leads to growth.
WHAT OUR RESEARCH REVEALED
We sat down with educators living through today's complex educational landscape to listen to their daily realities. What we found was clear: S.T.E.M. education isn't failing due to a lack of heart or student potential; it suffers when rigid systems lose touch with the human spirits inside the classroom.
To capture the depth, reflection, and lived wisdom of the educators we interviewed, we organized our findings through the archetype of oracle cards. Each card represents a core dimension of the educator journey—inviting us to pause, reflect, and engage with these insights not as cold data points, but as living truths that guide our collective path forward.
OUR 6 CORE FINDINGS
The Wish: Humanizing S.T.E.M. Learning
The Context: Systems vs. Humanity
The Trap: Compliance Over Agency
The Dream: Educators' Imagination
The Solution Space: Bridging Practices
The Partnership: Community Learning Ecosystems
Nth Education Partners exists to bridge the gap to your solution space. True change lives in Nepantla, the in-between space where we listen deeply, transform old paradigms, and re-humanize S.T.E.M. education from the inside out.
EXPLORE & REFLECT
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Browse our growing collection of free workshops, mini sessions, and conversations designed to support reflective, human-centered mathematics teaching.
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Explore at your own pace and return whenever you need inspiration, clarity, or connection.
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THE POWER OF LISTENING WORKSHOP: Key Insights into the Student Experience for Math Teachers
Discover our Student Experience Lens Model—a reflective tool designed to help math educators better understand their students and create classrooms rooted in belonging, curiosity, and confidence. This short, free on-demand workshop explores the essential elements every teacher can use to foster more inclusive, human-centered math learning.
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EMPOWERING ECOSYSTEMS WORKSHOP: How to Cultivate a Socially Just Mathematics Classroom
Explore our Empowering Ecosystems Framework—a practice-driven model created by former and current math educators to help build classrooms rooted in access, connection, and meaningful learning. This free on-demand mini workshop highlights the essential domains that support socially just mathematics classrooms in action.
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ICTM Webinar: Mathematics of Empathy
In this Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics webinar, Nth Education Partners founder Jerica Jurado explores what it means to humanize mathematics through culturally relevant, student-centered teaching. The session centers empathy, compassion, and community as essential foundations for creating safe, engaging math classrooms where students can thrive.
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Critical Math Drop Podcast - Episodes 15 & 16: Centering Math Joy with Nth Education Partners Parts 1 & 2
Critical Math Drop hosts podcasts on social justice issues in mathematics education.
Our powerful team at Nth Education Partners: Jerica Jurado, Esther Song, Jennifer Dao, & Chanel Keyvan share how they center joy, rehumanization of mathematics, and empathy in their mathematics education work.
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TODOS Podcast – Episode 4: Nepantla Teachers Community
TODOS hosts podcasts focused on mathematics education and equity.
What helps mathematics teachers stay rooted and sustained over time? In this extended conversation, Jerica Jurado and Esther Song reflect on identity, tension, and the power of finding your people. Drawing from their early work building the Nepantla Teachers Community—work that continues today through Nth Education Partners—they share how community, care, and shared purpose can carry educators through the complexities of teaching mathematics with humanity.
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NCTM Centennial Webinar
As part of the NCTM Centennial in Chicago, this featured webinar reflects our shared commitment to high-quality, humanizing mathematics education. Understanding the Mental Toll: Signals and Strategies for Supporting Our Teachers and Students features Esther Song and invites educators to care for both learning and well-being in math spaces.
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A NCTM Published Must Read
A reflective, practice-centered resource for educators seeking to recognize injustice, examine the social, political, and cultural forces that shape teaching and learning, and respond with clarity, care, and empathy. Thoughtfully co-authored by Lateefah Id-Deen and Esther Song to ground you in classroom realities, this book supports educators committed to teaching mathematics with humanity and purpose.
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Illinois Math Journal
“When mathematics connects to the community and students apply their mathematical understanding to the real world, impactful learning happens. Mathematics no longer lends itself as an abstract concept but connects humans and stories.”
Jennifer Dao shares her experience on “Rehumanizing Mathematics through Cultivating Joy” in the Illinois Math Journal. The official Journal of ICTM.
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Placing Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Students at the Center of Mathematics Education
This Annual Perspectives in Mathematics Education volume centers rehumanizing math teaching by honoring students’ identities, communities, and brilliance. Co-authored by Dr. Rochelle Gutiérrez—whose work deeply inspired the founding of the Nepantla Teachers Community and continues to shape Nth Education Partners—this resource is essential reading for educators committed to equitable, human-centered mathematics.